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Tried the standing forward bend. Still a good handlength from making fingertip contact with feet. Muscles are twinging. Sigh. It will come eventually.

Stay in position. Breathe in, breathe out, gently lower, repeat for a few rounds.

Walk around. Decide to try again.

! ???

There is fingertip contact!

WTF!!

The muscles remember!! They were so tight! But they REMEMBER!! I can touch my toes!! :D

Also:
✵ Walkies! Very short walkies.
✵ Minor stretching and resistance band exercises.

- Mist (he/him)

Current Location: sometimes the muscles just need to wake up a lil first

the_broken_tower

Currently in an introductory ballet program. It's very nice and casual!

The preparatory stretching from the weeks previous have (unsurprisingly) not been enough. There are tight hamstrings. There are tight calves. There is a lot of tightness. Some of that may be from nerve tension - so, time for nerve flossing. That forward bend has absolutely been lost in some year plus of not practicing it. Time to practice it again.

I'm deciding which gym class I want to go to this evening - more tiring, or less tiring? How sore do I want to be tomorrow? Because, oh, there will be yoga tomorrow. This is the solution (outside of regular stretching) to getting back in shape for Ballet. Gym classes. Yoga, pilates, barre, and bonus sauna time after it.

The other solution is going back into aerials. That doesn't start until next week.

Overall goals are such:

> Get back to the point of being able to do inverts gracefully. I can still do an invert. I cannot do it gracefully. I cannot chain them.
> Get back to being able to touch feet in a forward bend.
> Get an easy, consistent 90-degree forward leg lift. Atm there is a lot of tension on the upper thigh, and depending on how tired everything is, it's difficult to straighten the knee.

Long term goals:

> Be able to do strongman climbs on silks again. (Basically, hands only, no feet involved. My feet are reserved for toe climbs.)
> Get the shoulder mount on pole. Got close to it before stopping with aerials. I know it's there.

- Jonah (he/him)

muck_a_luck

There was enough interest in this that I would like a second round of feedback.

Do you think I should set it up like a beta exchange, where interested parties respond to a post with comments, and other parties contact the posters directly. I could set it up as a community members only post. For ficathons, we post our journal names, our contact e-mail, and restrictions and requirements for what we need and what we don't want. Actually, I think that will be the format for sign-ups no matter what.

My question is, would people prefer it to be a public list, where the participants contact one another, in which case, the sign-up comments would be open, or would people prefer that I act as mod and try to assign the best people to each other, in which case the signups would probably be screened comments again.

Actually, I guess there is no reason I couldn't make both options available.

What should be in the sign-up comment, aside from name and contact e-mail?

Also, I'd like to begin stressing that this is the internet, folks. We don't really know each other. One commenter said she'd love to get a text at 5:30am, which actually, I could do, because I get up at 4:15 am every day (nearly). But then the question becomes, is she comfortable giving me her number? Am I comfortable revealing mine? Just remember to be safe. Also, remember the comfort-level of your spouse or significant other! Darned RL relationships! :)

I'm not screening the comments on this discussion, so that people can play off each other's ideas.

muck_a_luck

Hey, community!

There have been a handful of people recently looking for ways to be more inspired to exercise when they lose their willpower. It has probably happened to all of us over time. A day off becomes a lost week becomes several weeks in a row until we can hardly remember the last time we exercised.

One of the things we all know helps is "accountability." That's one of the reasons why we're all here, after all. It helps to know that someone else cares how you are doing, and it also helps to feel a little bit guilty about letting that person down.

For some of us, being accountable only to ourselves is enough, and logging in here is a way to substiantiate that accountability.

But is there anyone here who thinks they might like some kind of more personal relationship. Somebody who sends a personal message - "Hey, how's it going? I noticed you didn't log in yesterday?" Someone you can connect with and say, "What should I do today? I am so unmotivated!"

I have no idea what interest there might be in having special relationships like this. Maybe they could be three or four weeks long, so that they can develop benefit, but not be a life-long commitment to someone else's fitness traumas?

Thoughts? Interest? I'm going to screen the comments on this post (assuming I can do that) so that people can feel free to be as frank as they like in responding. Also, if you would like to express interest in possibly participating, you could do that, too.

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